What Is It Like To Be A Bat

What is consciousness? Consciousness is “the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.” According to Thomas Nagel in his writing (What Is It Like to Be a Bat?). Now personally do I think that animals have human qualities, Yes I think and they are more than capable of solving problems, and having emotions whether its positive or negative, which I believe they project. Though there has been controversy over just which animals pass the mirror test, so they ran studies to gain a better grasp their findings concluded that chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans are more than capable of solving the task they were presented with, however there is strong evidence that a wide range of other primates who continuously fail. This is just a

single example of animals being able to think, not just have a brain but also be able to apply some type of critical thinking. As we progress in science we continue to study the mental capacity of these animals, as we dig deeper we are starting to discover their intellect is greater than anticipated.
Some of these studies focus on specific kinds of experience, such as pain, while others focus on cognitive abilities such as self-awareness that seem to be strongly correlated with human consciousness. “At present we are completely unequipped to think about the subjective
However, we are making great strides towards the ability to better understand the animals that cohabitate on this planet, as some animals could truly understand commands and apply critical thinking. According to Thomas Nagel however we will never truly be able to understand these creature as we cannot “see through their eyes”. Personally I can understand where Thomas Nagel is coming from and I do agree to a certain extent, though I believe science will prevail as we make indescribable technological